Bible verses about "quarrelsome" | Anderson

¹ This is a true saying: If any desires the office of a bishop, he desires a good work. ² A bishop, then, must be blame less, the husband of one wife, watchful, soberminded, modest, hospitable, able to teach, ³ not fond of wine, not quarrelsome, not one who makes money by base means; but gentle, not contentious, not covetous; ⁴ one that rules his own house well; having his children in subjection with all gravity: ⁵ for if a man knows not how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God? ⁶ Not a new convert, lest, having become conceited, he fall into the condemnation of the devil. ⁷ Further, he must have a good reputation from those who are without, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. ⁸ The deacons, likewise, must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not makers of money by base means, ⁹ holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. ¹⁰ And let these also be first proved, then let them become deacons, being blameless. ¹¹ Their wives likewise must be grave, not slanderers, watchful, faithful in all things. ¹² Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. ¹³ For those who have filled the office of a deacon well, gain for themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith that is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ I write these things to you, hoping to come to you shortly; ¹⁵ but if I delay, that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth. ¹⁶ And confessedly great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in flesh, justified in spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory.

²² Wives, be subject to your own husbands as to the Lord: ²³ for the husband is the head of the wife, as the Christ also is the head of the church; and he is the savior of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is subject to the Christ, so, also, let the wives be subject to their own husbands in every thing. ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as the Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it, ²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bath of water through the word, ²⁷ in order that he might present it to himself a glorious church, having neither stain, nor wrinkle, nor any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. ²⁸ So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself; ²⁹ for no one ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Christ the church: ³⁰ because we are members of his body, being of his flesh, and of his bones. ³¹ For this cause a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. ³² Great is this mystery; but I speak of Christ and of the church. ³³ But yet, let each one of you so love his wife as himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.

² A bishop, then, must be blame less, the husband of one wife, watchful, soberminded, modest, hospitable, able to teach,

²⁴ and the servant of the Lord must not be contentious, but gentle toward all men, able to teach, patient under evils,

¹ Whence come wars and strifes among you? Come they not hence, even of your passions, which war in your members?

²⁴ and the servant of the Lord must not be contentious, but gentle toward all men, able to teach, patient under evils, ²⁵ in meekness instructing those who oppose themselves, if, possibly, God may give them repentance in order to the acknowledgment of the truth, ²⁶ and that they may awake to sobriety out of the snare of the devil, after having been taken captive by him according to his will.